Tournaments

Traditionally the tournaments of the festival have been the Open Pairs, the Swiss Teams and the Mixed Pairs. This year is no exception and the week starts with the Open Pairs, the event that attracts the highest participation. It is a 3-session pairs’ event with match-point scoring across the field and it will be played from Saturday 20 to Monday 22 August 2016, with one session every day.

The second event is the Mixed Pairs which is also a match points event, this one takes place over two sessions from Tuesday 23 to Wednesday 24 August 2016.

The schedule of the festival is rounded up with the Teams event. This is played in a Swiss format (and appropriately selected Danish rounds) in 2 sessions, Thursday 25 & Friday 26 August 2016 and its completion marks the end of the festival.

Random generated computer hands will be used throughout the festival and top pairs will be seeded. Hand records will be provided at the completion of each session and top tables’ play in the teams event will be broadcasted on the Internet.

Moreover, for the Open Pairs & Mixed Pairs tournament barometer scoring will be available.

Entry fees are as follows:

Open Pairs

100 € per person

Mixed Pairs

60 € per person

Swiss Teams

75 € per person

Special discounts on the prices above are provided for juniors and for active members of Hellenic Bridge Federation.

Not yet tired of playing bridge after the main events? Evening friendly tournaments will be open to anybody, 10E per person, 60% of the jackpot to the prize pool with scrambled formula. Every day 4 lucky players will be randomly selected to play in the evening friendly tournament and spend a night of great bridge with small international rising stars!

We will be waiting for you every afternoon by the pool to discuss the most complicated hands of the previous night!

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KRZYSZTOF MARTENS

Born 1952 in a bridge – playing family. Every weekend his parents played rubber-bridge with neighbours, or friends, That`s why he started playing bridge as a teenager, and semi-professionally in 1970. Married, daughter is 26 and son 23, students.

Many times in my trainers career I have seen too great expectations of players. They were anxious to jump from advanced to the expert level in short time. It is not an easy work. The secret consist in collecting a lot of small achievements in all fields of bridge play. On the way to mastery one has to make hundreds of small steps. Very few succeeded in achieving their purpose by themselves. Whatever is required it is inspirer. The proper one will lay out the task and then help in reaching it. I have marked the part for myself.

On the base of the long experience as a player as well as a trainer I have written a series of text books helping an advanced player to become a master and a talented pair to rise its professional qualification. There is a blank I want to fill and switch the energy of players in the right direction. In the job one can easy make a great mistake. It`s more than enough to assume that all have the same needs as I, or to think, that I`ll be able to anticipate those needs without questioning and listening to them. The major part of my instructions makes the answer to real demands. I have written down all remarks and questions of my “students” very carefully.

I have found pleasure and satisfaction in noticing talented players. I believe in extraordinary potential of human spirit. The great poet and dreamer J. W. Goethe said: “Take a man according to his potential and you make him great”. Take a player like a master and you`ll make him the real one.

Exposing the hidden in people around us potential, layers of ingeniousness awaiting exploration and curbing it`s a big art, but also great challenge for an ambitious trainer and teacher.

Achievements:

Team European Championships

1981 - Birmingham Gold Medal

1989 - Turku Gold Medal

1991 - Killarney Bronze Medal

1993 - Menton Gold Medal

2001 - Tenerife Bronze Medal

Bermuda Bowl

1981 - New York Bronze Medal

1989 - Perth Bronze Medal

1991 - Yokohama Silver Medal

2002 - Paris Bronze Medal

Bridge Olympic Games

1980 - Valkenburg

1984 - Seattle Gold Medal

1988 - Venice

1996 - Rhodes

Europe Cup

1984 - Malmo Gold medal as a member of 'Czarni' team

2009 – Silver Medal in European Pairs Championship – San Remo

Career Coaching Record

1992 - 95 Educator of the Israeli National Team

1997 Consultant of the Dutch Open Team

1997 - 99 Coach of the Dutch National Women’s Team, which won World Championship in 2000

1997 Coach of the German National Teams in all categories

1998 Consultant of the Austrian National Team

1997 - 2000 Educator in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon

1999 NPC captain of the Lebanon National Team during the EC in Malta

2000 - 2002 Coach of the German National Women’s Team, bronze medal in the Bridge Olympiad in Maastricht and gold medal in World Championship in Paris